![]() You can download this extension from my site. I’ve no idea why there’s no 64-bit version! Which uses a 32-bit perl library to get the current user’s default browser. ![]() I can just start typing Save Link, and select it to save it.Īs an aside, it also contains the interesting perl snippet: VERSIONER_PERL_PREFER_32_BIT=yes perl -MMac::InternetConfig -le 'print +(GetICHelper "http")' When I want to save a bookmark in Pinboard, if I’m in either Chrome or Safari, It notably won’t do anything in Firefox or Opera though. This works by using either Safari or Chrome (or trying the default if neither Set bookmarklet to "q=location.href if(document.getSelection) p=document.title void(open(''+encodeURIComponent(q)+'&description='+encodeURIComponent(d)+'&title='+encodeURIComponent(p),'Pinboard','toolbar=no,width=700,height=350')) "Įxecute front window's active tab javascript bookmarklet The Default Script, and hit the edit button, then I added my AppleScript, and So, I made a new Launchbar Action in the Action Editor by filling out the basicĭetails in the General pane, then, in the Script pane, I chose AppleScript as Luckily, LB6’s developer docsĪre comprehensive and useful, so I quickly figured out I needed a run handler,ĭisplay dialog "No argument was passed to the action"Īnd if you don’t need it, you can omit the return. The next step was to work out how to do this with the Pinboard bookmarklet, When I hit the run button, Safari popped up an alert boxĬontaining the URL of the page loaded in Safari’s frontmost tab. If LaunchBar is enabled, individual program scripts will add entries to the. Set current_tab to the current tab of the front window As an example the Browse for Folder option does not work with WinPE 2. Set bookmarklet to "alert(document.location)" In the Script Editor: tell application "Safari" Instead, I tried the following AppleScript snippet When you open a disk image (.dmg file) via LaunchBar, the image gets mounted and LaunchBar automatically shows the contents of the newly mounted volume. Launchbar’s index, and using them to open bookmarklets. In fact, the post talks about adding a folder of AppleScript files to Which is a post about opening bookmarklets using older versions of Launchbar. So I set about trying to open the bookmarklet in Safari, using AppleScript. I quickly realised that what I wanted was the popup bookmarklet listed on The current URL loaded in Safari (or Chrome, and ideally also Firefox or any The goal of my mission was to create a way to use a Launchbar action to take A step which would also give me the chance to play So, adding the ability to save bookmarks to Pinboard, using Launchbar seemed Highly-extensible launcher and general purpose app for doing things on Macs. Opting to either just search the web for sites I need to revisit, or store them in I don’t really use the bookmark functionality built into web browsers, instead This post covers my mini AppleScript adventure using Launchbar 6’s cool I've considered alfred before but didn't switch because I never imagined it could replace either one of these, but then it could be that neither of those things I described is "the Alfred way of doing things".Launchbar actions for browsing Pinboard are pretty much covered, but IĬouldn’t find any actions to save them in the way I want, so set about writing I can select a contact, hit tab, send it to skype and it'll make a call. I can search for a folder, hit tab, search an other folder and it copies things. ![]() Holding command-space with files or texts or whatever selected pulls them up in launch bar etc.Įqually important for me is hitting tab to give things as inputs to other things. ![]() First, it has tons of shortcuts for common tasks of things.Ĭmd-shift-n creates a new folder inside a folder, I love using launchbar for a couple of reasons. I'm a current launchbar user, and I'm thinking of switching. ![]()
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